Advanced Courses

ESMO-ESO Courses on Medical Oncology for Medical Students

These annual five-day residential courses enable students to get a full picture of this challenging and interesting professional field before making the choice of their specialisation.

Preceptorship Courses

Apply now to join one of our Preceptorship courses!

Workshops & Courses

ESMO fosters the advancement of cancer research by supporting clinical trials workshops to inspire young oncologists from different disciplines across the globe to become the next generation of active researchers.

Patient Guides

Guides for Patients are designed to assist patients, their relatives and caregivers to better understand the nature of different types of cancer and evaluate the best available treatment choices

Personalised Medicine Explained

Video interviews and articles designed to help patients, policy makers and other non-medical professionals better understand the principles of personalised cancer medicine

Getting the Most out of Your Oncologist

Now available in Romanian, our Guide for Patients with Advanced Cancer is designed for patients, their family members and oncologists.

Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care

The ESMO Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care accreditation programme recognises cancer centres which provide comprehensive services in supportive and palliative care as part of their routine care.

EFPIA Disclosure Code

Policy News

Welcome to OncologyPRO, the home of ESMO’s educational and scientific resources, with Guidelines, a comprehensive list of E-Learning modules, Factsheets on biomarkers, slides and webcasts from our educational programme, and more... to support continuing medical education and daily practice!

Pilar Garrido

Dr. Garrido is Associate Professor of Medical Oncology at Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) and serves as Head of the Thoracic Tumours Unit in the Medical Oncology Department at the University Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS) in Madrid, Spain.

After completing her training in Medical Oncology in 1990, Dr. Garrido obtained her PhD thesis on the influence of prognostic factor in small cell lung cancer in 1993. Co-director of the Cancer and Chronic Disease Research Group at the Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), her main areas of research and clinical interest are thoracic tumours, in particular lung cancer, having authored many research articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

Former President of the Spanish Medical Oncology Society, Dr. Garrido currently serves on a variety of scientific committees and boards including the Spanish National Cancer Strategy Committee. Actively involved in training, she is currently President of the National Advisory Council for Health Science Specialist Training as well as President of the Medical Oncology Specialist Training Committee.

An ESMO member since 1999, Dr. Garrido has been a member of the ESMO Fellowship and Award Committee and of the ESMO Women for Oncology (W4O) Committee, of the ESMO Lung and other Thoracic Tumours Faculty since 2012, and of the ESMO Nominating Committee in 2017. She is currently Press & Media Affairs Committee Chair (2018-2019) of ESMO and also serves as member of its Executive Board.

She also participated as member of the ESMO Scientific Committees in several ESMO and IASLC meetings.